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The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

William Falconer

William Falconer Biography

  Nationality: Scottish
Type: Poet

Born: 1732
Death: 1769
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